[hedgehog]

There's clearly a range of outcomes, from the people pushing the envelope in system performance (look at the state of networking ASICs and the code to drive them) to people adopting hyper-complex frameworks for cloud orchestration and job coordination that turn a few screens of code into system so slow and complex it needs a team to maintain it. It's all happening at once, and it's probably ok. Keep in mind, knowing how to write assembly and knowing how to get good performance out of a CPU are two different things, modern chips are insanely complicated and the mental model is a long way from the days of the 386 or 68030 (let alone pre-MMU computing).